Emile ArdolinoTo direct a film like Dirty Dancing, you need someone who specializes in the act depicted in the title. That means finding someone who knows their way around a bottle of Windex or som...

Eleanor BergsteinIn a different world, Eleanor Bergstein would be on Dancing with the Stars. Not as a star, but as a pro. Her screenplay for Dirty Dancing is largely autobiographical. Her father wa...

Great American Films Limited Partnership, distributed by Vestron PicturesSome production companies have creative names. Spielberg's DreamWorks comes to mind. Or M. Night Shyamalan's Blinding Edge P...

Dirty Dancing got its title before it was even written. Screenwriter Bergstein was pitching ideas to an MGM producer, and reminisced about the dirty dancing of her teen years. The producer, Linda G...

Kenny OrtegaDirty Dancing would just be Dirty without the dancing. Not that it's that dirty with the dancing. But remember, this is the 1960s. It was easy to scandalize then. What was outrageous to...

Some Kind of WonderfulWhoever curated the music for Dirty Dancing managed to find every single song with the word "Baby" in it. At least it seems that way. With a main character named "Baby," it fe...

It would be a sad world if Dirty Dancing didn't have fans. But it does. Two big fans are Derek Hough and Bindi Irwin, who performed the iconic ending dance on Dancing with the Stars in 2015 (source...